Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean young man with a puckered face stood at the rail of a liner that docked last week in Manhattan. He was Charles Hoff, famed all-around athlete, holder of the world's pole vault record (13 ft. 11 15/16 in.), arriving from Norway to compete in the season's indoor meets. He has never before vaulted indoors, but believes that he can achieve the as yet unrecorded height of 14 ft. He will also compete on board tracks against the best U. S. middle-distance runners. Charles Hoff is the first to arrive of four celebrated European...
Home from 75,000 miles of travel up and down Africa, a British missionary brought news. A photograph showed a long, lean, brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set at 6 ft. 6 in. The jumper was a Watusi or member of the highest caste in the African kingdom of Ruanda, a caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have...
...Family. Since It Pays to Advertise and The Tailor Made Man, Grant Mitchell has had lean luck. His undoubted but somewhat restricted talents have not been fitted into a suitable play. This one is about an outsider who married into a Massachusetts household of the aristocratic Adamses. A fair idea but most blunderingly handled...
With a rapid pickup, a lean chassis, and no brakes, smooth-running Carr of Syracuse jeered at the shaky semaphores which Columbia propped in his path; supplied all the locomotion, his team needed...
...which played the late Percy Haughton, founder of the "Harvard system" and noted in his undergraduate days for his great booming punts and accurate drop-kicks, and Major Charles Daly, present University backfield coach, battled Yale to two scoreless ties and divided the rest of the games evenly. Five lean years followed with successive Yale victories until Haughton returned as head coach. Then the golden age of Harvard football flourished until the period of the world war. Harvard seems to have viewed its good fortune with an excess of caution; for, at the beginning of the 1914 season, the Alumni...